Location Note: Audio visual materials are located in the Special Collections stacks.

creator:
Yeomans, Patricia Henry

Separated Materials

The following materials were moved to Pat Yeoman's Alumni Files:
History and Heritage of the Los Angeles Tennis Club: 1920-1980 (Los Angeles Tennis Club, 1979),
Our History, Our Heritage, Our Homes, Our Hope (First Baptist Church of Los Angeles, 1999), and several self-published works on tennis.

Biographical Note

Patricia Henry Yeomans is an American athlete and writer in Los Angeles, California. Yeomans studied history and played tennis
at Occidental College, and was the first woman at the school to receive an "Oxy O" letter. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in
1938. Yeomans remains an active amateur historian, and has produced several historical works, including
Behind the Headlines with Bill Henry(Ward Ritchie Press, 1972),
History and Heritage of the Los Angeles Tennis Club: 1920-1980 (Los Angeles Tennis Club, 1979),
Our History, Our Heritage, Our Homes, Our Hope (First Baptist Church of Los Angeles, 1999), and several self-published works on tennis. Daughter of Bill Henry (class of
1914), Yeomans was instrumental in the establishment of the Bill Henry Room at the Occidental College Library.

This collection consists of the research materials, correspondence, and writings Yeomans generated in establishing the Bill
Henry Room at the Occidental College Library, and the publication of works on Bill Henry, the history of the Olympics, the
history of tennis in Los Angeles, and the history of the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles. Materials include scrapbooks,
newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and publications and memorabilia relating to the Olympic Games.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials were donated by Patricia Yeomans between 1970-2012.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Henry, William Mellors, 1890-1970.

Occidental College.

Olympics--History.

Sports--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Box 1-4, 8-10

Bill Henry1907-1990

Scope and Contents

This series includes newspaper clippings, photographs, notes, correspondence, and scrapbooks that relate to Yeoman's establishment
of the Bill Henry Room at Occidental in 1970, and the production of
Behind the Headlines with Bill Henry(Ward Ritchie Press, 1972), and
1939: Bill Henry's Wartime Diary (self-published, 1973).

Scrapbooks

Scope and Contents

Yeomans created scrapbooks of Henry's articles, correspondence, photographs, and other materials she gathered in researching
her father.

Box 1

By the Way with Bill Henry1931-1957

Physical Description:
4 scrapbooks

Box 1, 8

Behind the Headlines with Bill Henry1970-1973

Physical Description:
10 scrapbooks

Box 2, 9

Bill Henry Room Documents1933-1972

Physical Description:
12 scrapbooks

Box 3-4

Bill Henry Room files1914-1990

Physical Description:
13 folders + 4 oversize mylar folders

Scope and Contents

These files contain newspaper clippings of articles by or about Henry, floor plans and location charts of the Bill Henry Room,
Bill Henry Room presentation handouts and displays, photocopied letters from J.Q.A. Henry to Margaret Welndell Henry, Stanton
family history charts, correspondence relating to the establishment of the Bill Henry Room, and copies of a graduate student
paper entitled,
Bill Henry: A Reporter and His Work, by Alan L. Mendau (California State University at Northridge, 1981).

Box 4

Photographs1907-1962

Physical Description:
1 photo album + 4 folders

Scope and Contents

Photographs of Henry throughout his career, various Henry family members, and the Bill Henry Room.

Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and other research materials Yeomans collected in updating her
father's book,
An Approved History of the Olympic Games (Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, 1976, 1981, and 1984 editions),
Five Olympiads (Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, 2001),
Southern California Tennis Champions Centennial, 1887-1987: documents and anecdotes (Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, 1987), a set of novelty playing cards for the 1984 Olympic Games produced
by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, and several self published works on the history of the Olympics. Also included
are various programs, brochures, catalogs, magazines, newspapers, and other publications related to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic
Games.

50th Anniversary of the 1932 Olympic Games at Los Angeles [sound recording]1982